Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah
Author
Rita Dove
Cover artist
Ray A. Dove
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre(s)
Poetry
Publisher
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Publication date
1986
Media type
Print
Pages
80 pp.
ISBN
ISBN 0-88748-021-7 (Paperback)
OCLC Number
24955131
Dewey Decimal
811/.54 20
LC Classification
PS3554.O884 T47 1986
Preceded by
Fifth Sunday
Followed by
Grace Notes
Thomas and Beulah is a book of poems by American poet Rita Dove that tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of her maternal grandparents, the focus being on her grandfather (Thomas, his name in the book as well as in real life) in the first half and her grandmother (named Beulah in the book, although her real name was Georgianna) in the second. It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Contents
I. Mandolin
The Event
Variation on Pain
Jiving
Straw Hat
Courtship
Refrain
Variation on Guilt
Nothing Down
The Zeppelin Factory
Under the Viaduct, 1932
Lightnin’ Blues
Compendium
Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury
Aircraft
Aurora Borealis
Variation on Gaining a Son
One Volume Missing
The Charm
Gospel
Roast Possum
The Stroke
The Satisfaction Coal Company
Thomas at the Wheel
II. Canary in Bloom
Taking in Wash
Magic
Courtship, Diligence
Promises
Dusting
A Hill of Beans
Weathering Out
Motherhood
Anniversary
The House on Bishop Street
Daystar
Obedience
The Great Palaces of Versailles
Pomade
Headdress
Sunday Greens
Recovery
Nightmare
Wingfoot Lake
Company
The Oriental Ballerina
Chronology
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Notes and references
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28
^ a b c d e f g h i Also featured in Callaloo.
^ a b c Also featured in The Reaper.
^ a b c Also featured in Paris Review.
^ a b c Also featured in Cutbank.
^ Also featured in Georgia Review.
^ Also featured in Ploughshares.
^ a b Also featured in Nimrod.
^ a b Also featured in New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly.
^ a b c d Also featured in New American Poets of the Eighties, Wampeter Press, 1984
^ a b Also featured in Poetry.
^ Also featured in Pushcart Prize: VII, Pushcart Press, 1984, Museum, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1983, and The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, 1985.
^ a b Also featured in The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, University Press of New England, 1985
^ a b Also featured in Agni Review.
External links
Online poem, Straw Hat, from Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove at alittlepoetry.com
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